Men ages 23 to 30 are discovering that a bachelor’s degree doesn’t offer the same protection from unemployment that it used to.
Amid a wider slowdown in hiring, the unemployment rate for men ages 23 to 30 with bachelor’s degrees has jumped in recent months to 6% — compared with 3.5% for young women with the same level of education, according to data analyzed by NBC News.
Now, young men with bachelor’s degrees are slightly likelier to be unemployed than young men with just high school diplomas, the analysis found. That’s a recent reversal after decades when young men with bachelor’s degrees had an advantage in the labor market, economists said.
Young women haven’t experienced the same trend; they are still significantly likelier to be employed if they have bachelor’s degrees.
I am in this article and I don’t like it.
Mechanical Engineer, graduated a few years ago. Slightly above this age band due to mental health struggles in my 20s. Four years of internships + undergrad research during school. One year, three months of unsteady, career-relevant contract work since then.
Moved from Bumfuck Midwest to a city with plenty of aerospace gigs but can’t even get an interview at the grocery store. I’m lucky that my parents and state aid have covered me thus far, have gotten wildly higher-quality mental/physical care here. Behaviourally I’m better than ever but chucking resumes into the void is wearing me down and I’m backsliding on my executive functioning progress.
Employment or a Master’s/PhD in Sweden/Germany/EU in general is preferable to the American defense industry but that’s a tall and expensive hill to climb (if anyone wants to assist please DM 🙃) and I’m nearly out of time before being faced with moving back home.
I’m tired, boss.
They looked at four groups…
One men and women were equal.
One men had a higher rate of unemployment.
And two where women had a higher rate, so of course they wrote the article about the 25% that showed men were worse off.
Despite the article admitting the reason for that one demographic was men had a substantial lead. Unemployment got worse for everyone, there’s just way more men in the heaviest hit industries like IT/tech
of course they wrote the article about the 25% that showed men were worse off.
What do you mean “of course”? In the vast, vast majority of cases, female suffering is given more attention and sympathy than male suffering in the media.
Remember when 11% of killed journalists being women led to a social media campaign from the UN about ‘stop targeting women journalists’?
Or when 25% of homeless being women was the focus of articles talking about homelessness?
Or when Boko Haram kidnapping girls generated massive media outrage, while them murdering boys didn’t? Even the headlines would make no effort to even mention the sex of it wasn’t female: you’d see “schoolgirls” or “girls” for the former, but just “children” or “students” for the latter.
There was widespread outrage about sexism in colleges when women were in the minority of graduates. Today, it’s men that are a significant minority, and no one gives a shit.
Suicide rates increasing faster among girls than boys is given more attention than the fact that boys are still four times more likely to do it than girls.
“Of course”, indeed.
Young women haven’t experienced the same trend; they are still significantly likelier to be employed if they have bachelor’s degrees.
A sure as the sun will rise, this will be interpreted by the usual folks to mean that reverse gender discrimination is rampant and must be stamped out as part of anti-woke/dei.
young men with bachelor’s degrees are slightly likelier to be unemployed than young men with just high school diplomas
This, however, will be touted as a huge success and sign of the effectiveness of this administration.
